What is it about?
Cognitive behavior therapists provided their patients either with psychoeducation booklets or not. Informed patients showed a worse treatment outcome and a more complicated therapist-patient-relationship
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Why is it important?
Patient Information can result in side effects. As in any other treatment positive and negative effects must be taken into account
Perspectives
As there is a generally uncritical attitude towards Patient education,, these data Sound a note of caution. Further similar studies are needed.
Michael Linden
Charité University Medicine Berlin
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This page is a summary of: Better patient knowledge and worse treatment outcome after written patient information in inpatient cognitive behaviour therapy as compared to non-informed patients, Cogent Psychology, May 2019, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/23311908.2019.1612825.
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